Spirit and Consciousness

Ego Death: Hallucinogens' Potentially Huge Benefit. One of the most valuable potential benefits of the classic hallucinogens (psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, San Pedro cactus, Ayahuasca) is what is known as "ego death".

The death of the ego is often described as the experience of losing one's sense of identity. Typically occurring at or near the peak of a psychedelic journey, the phenomena of ego death is both feared and revered.
Lucid Dreaming: The Basics. The following is excerpted from Lucid Dreaming: A Beginners Guide To Becoming Conscious In Your Dreams, to be published by Hay House Basics in February, 2015.

In one of his conferences, imparted at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research & Education at Stanford, the Tibet’s spiritual leader spoke about the neurological implications of practicing compassion to seven thousand people, including important researchers in different scientific fields (psychologists, neuroscientists, doctors, economists, among others). From the Buddhist perspective, compassion is a similar feeling to love and it implies the capacity to feel what another person is feeling, to experience it and have the will to help. With a genuine and contagious joy, and his characteristic sense of humor, the monk explained that, regardless of the many assumptions, science and Buddhism are not contradictory. He also spoke about scientific studies which support the benefits of a trained mind in the Buddhist sense.
7 enseñanzas fundamentales que Gandhi nos dejó.

“His pacifism, his fight for the truth and his belief in non-violence were like a lighthouse,” the writer Verónica Murguía once said about Mahatma Gandhi, “above all because we know that, in the long run, that voice was heard.”

Poured into the mold of our current reality, the recommendations by that historic figure have the peace and perseverance that we are so lacking. And beyond the fact that Gandhi has become a meme that does the rounds on social networks with messages of out-of-context self-advancement, if we heed the words there are valuable political and spiritual possibilities. The following are some of the timely and wise pronouncements of that man of fragile appearance who was, as we know, powerful at the same time. Nobody can hurt me without my permission. How you feel and how you react to something is always your decision. The weak can never forgive. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.